The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-29

turned to see Mary Jane, her face wan and
tear-stained in the moonlight. 81 wouldn't
have come to you, only | haven't anybody
slse,' she said sand fathers come home,
tpd he's very sick. He was worn out; he
4 d walked miles and miles, with scarcely
Ay thing to eat, and when he got here to
his Old home, there was no welcome for him.
Ebe Talby and one or two others refused
him shelter for the night; they were
AFRAID ne would be sick on their hands.
They found him over by Porter's Ledge UNI
Conscious. 1t is slight shock of paralysis,
tie doctor says. / think he meant to drown
himself. He is at DR. Clapp's now, but |
Eust provide place for him. Ihave some
rnNney put away-almost forty dollars it
isn't for charity that I've come to you; but
I'm so tired out and bewildered l can't
seem to think what is to be done. You will
help me, won't youl-though you don't care
for me as you used to. 0, Sam, what was
it that came between US, even before she
Games You loved me once, but you grew
cold. Twas always just the same. | don't
mean to blame you; know Pm not good
enough for you. I'm not like herr
said He had put his arm around her, and
| she was sobbing on his shoulder. Could he
tell her that she had been mistaken in think
ing that he loved her, that a brotherly kind
ness was all he had ever felt for her! SIT
is mistake" he repeated, hoarsely. 81
have been absorbed, ambitious, Mary Jane :
but love you-just as much as l ever did >,
80, is it really true, SAM l thought
thst you-that She"
Don't talk about her-she is nothing to
! vol or me-" he said, almost roughly. 81
: .dst-go to see about your father" He put
her aside and hurried away
'Going to marry one of the table girls?
Wen, if that's the fellow he is, Pm glad he
hasn't accepted my offer yet don't care
much about his social or family relations,
but if ne will do that he isn't the man took
him for, and shall wash my hands of him
forthwith Which operation Mr. Sidney
Collamore fastened to perform, as Pulsifer
came up the steps of the veranda, where he
stood. Mrs. Arlington was there, and she
deliberately turned her back upon her
whilom protege. Seraph was there also,
looking very pale Mrs. Arlington had ex-
planned to her friend with the suspicious
that the deep red roses fastened at her throat
gave her that appearance). There was an
appealing look in her eyes as she looked at
the clerk, which changed to little flash of
scorn as he refused to meet them. ....
eyes, it Is true she heard him say, in
answer to her uncle, who had said some
thing about ''hinderances' and ''hampering
HIMSELF "And l should be Obliged to de-
cline your offer in any case, as nv father
in-law's condition will obliee me to remain
here"
,His father-in-lawl He up m said it Jest
like that, m it was true" said Cap'n Hack
EFT, of the Harbor House, who told the story
to one Of his guests. 'For he'd taken Mary
Jane to the minister's that very day, m
he'd hired Jim Crafts COTTAGE m got the
old man moved there, m settled down tc
housekeepin'. You can see the house now,
to it, m fixed it up sos't you wouldn't
scurcely know it for the same house. o
yes, he lives here yet; he wouldn't leave
the old man anyhow, and there'd be no such
thing as takin' him. He 'ain't turned out,
Sarmwel 'ain't, as great things as folks
expected from his tarlents. He's got a
law Office over to 'Scutney, IN he gets what
practice there is, m we've sent him tc
the Legislator, m for valer'ble man in
the communerty he's with any six. But,
land to think of Hackett's Harbor holdin'
Sarmwell Seems as if l couldn't be
reconciled at first to his havin' Mary
Jane Moody for a wife; but 1 declare be-
lieve he sets by her as much as men com
monty does by their wives, m l amt sure
but more You see she worships him, IN